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A man has filed an $800,000 lawsuit against a construction firm which he claims fired him because he did not want to attend weekly Bible study meetings. Ryan Coleman from Oregon was hired as a painter at Albany-based Dahled Up Construction in October 2017 and discovered on the job that he was requir

The first phase of Cassiltoun Housing Association’s ambitious development plans will achieve a site start this month. The Association will complete 42 new homes on three sites known as ‘Barlia 3’. The development will consist of a mixture of general needs, wheelchair adaptable and amenity elde

The number of Scottish businesses winning work from their local council has almost halved over the last decade, according to a detailed new report. Figures published by the Improvement Service show that Scotland’s councils had 51,312 local suppliers in 2008 but by 2017 this figure had fallen to 29

The iconic image depicting construction workers eating lunch on a girder suspended 840ft above New York has been recreated with one of the worker’s descendants. One of the world’s most famous photographs, ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ features 11 workers sat side-by-side without safety harnesses

https://youtu.be/m8O6CugLTww A turbine that can capture wind from any direction and turn it into electricity in cities struggling to produce enough renewable energy for increasing populations has won the UK's 2018 James Dyson Award.

Almost 1,230 homebuyers in the west of Scotland have used Help to Buy to secure a new home over the past year.

The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group – representing the largest sector in UK construction (by value) – has welcomed support from Lord Adonis, past chairman of the UK Infrastructure Commission, for reform of the construction industry’s payment practices. In a statement advocati

Clermiston Primary School Livingston-based building contractor Maxi Construction has secured over £6.8m of work for The City of Edinburgh Council for extension and refurbishment projects to primary schools.

The Scottish Government’s ambitious A9 Dualling Programme has reached another milestone with the publication of draft orders for the penultimate section to be dualled.

Kier Construction Scotland has been appointed to take forward a trio of projects in the field of mental health, including a £6m refurbishment programme at Royal Cornhill hospital in Aberdeen and Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin. Kier has also been appointed to develop the designs for a £4.8m extensio

Aberdeenshire Council is to take direct action to resolve a long running planning related issue at a residential development on the site of the former Kingseat Hospital, near Newmachar. The local authority will carry out work to form a community park and install play equipment, after the initial dev

Scotland’s supply chain could be set to win more large scale decommissioning projects, after Dales Voe in Shetland has been identified as the optimal location for an ultra-deep water port. The Lerwick location was selected following a UK-wide feasibility study, conducted by Ernst and Young, has as

The £60 million learning and teaching hub has been designed by BDP The University of Strathclyde has selected Balfour Beatty to deliver its new £60 million learning and teaching building.

akp has been engaged as principal contractor to complete the second phase of refurbishment works at Cairn Lodge Services. Located just off the A74 (M) between J11 and J12, the services are owned by Westmorland which runs Tebay on the M6, Rheged and Gloucester on the M5.

The cost of redeveloping Hampden along similar lines to the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart could cost up to £90 million according to the architect behind the project for the German side. Eberhard Becker of Stuttgart-based firm ASP was responsible for the redesign of the stadium, which saw the sta